Sheila Jambekar, Chief Privacy Officer at Plaid, and Michael Phillips, Cyber Practice Leader, USA at CFC, discuss the human element at the forefront of security innovations and policies.
by Nikhil Chawla
The goal of this conversation is to frame privacy risk from a legal/regulatory perspective as well as an operational (privacy engineering) perspective. As security leaders we need to understand that privacy is more than checking a set of compliance boxes. It includes concepts like “privacy by design.” Those ideas embody the regulatory/compliance requirements as specifications to be engineered in to systems. The goal is to create systems that enable “privacy by default.”
Breaches used to be primarily carried out via software vulnerabilities: Companies would announce a flaw, take a while to fix it, and attackers would find their way into the system using those exploits. From there they might not only steal information and assets from their primary target, but would also use their access to jump […]
It’s prediction season and while no one can see into the future, we can definitely take some educated guesses. From increasingly severe ransomware attacks to deepfakes that deceive Fortune 500 companies, we’re keeping an eye out for some major events in 2025. And while many organizations are taking steps to beef up their defenses, the […]
As market awareness of cyber risk quantification grows, we frequently receive questions from clients and curious risk managers about FAIR (Factor Analysis of Information Risk)—what it is, whether it truly provides accurate cyber risk quantification, the effort needed to set it up and maintain, and more. Clients often ask us to compare the FAIR methodology […]
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